Seven and Eight Weeks

Thursday, 25 April 2013

This week I got to hear your heartbeat! I can’t even tell you how special that moment was to me. I pray for you a million times, every single day, and God has been taking such great care of you! I also found out that you will probably arrive on or near December 13th of this year. That makes me seven weeks pregnant tomorrow.

My body seems super excited to be pregnant. My belly is already poking out a tiny bit and my pants feel so tight! We really do want to wait until Mother’s Day to tell everyone about you, but I’m afraid they’ll figure it out before then. Today I couldn’t button my favorite pair of jeans. And I feel so very sick all the time. I’m very fatigued, constantly nauseated, and I have lots of food aversions. I feel terrible for your poor daddy - I can’t stand the smells of cooking, so he has had to fend for himself in the kitchen this week.  I’m just praying that I will be able to keep my secret until “the big reveal” on May 12th.

Here are some photos Uncle Jacob took for Aunt Jess and me. We will use them when we announce our pregnancies together on Mother's Day!

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Today I got to see you again! You look more beautiful every time! Today I could see how much you have grown. You look less like a big circle and more like a baby, my sweet baby. My due date was adjusted since you were big enough to get a more accurate measurement. So for now I am due on December 11th. That makes me 8 weeks pregnant tomorrow.

I’m so happy to be carrying you! I feel absolutely terrible almost all the time, but happily so. I cherish every moment of nausea, fatigue, dizziness, sleepiness, and discomfort because it means that you are growing well. And I know that in about a month I will start to feel better. You are definitely worth every bit of discomfort that I feel now. I’m sure of that!

I am having a really hard time eating. I’m nauseated most of the time, even when I’m hungry. So that makes things difficult. But I also have lots of food aversions - and they seem to change constantly. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I have an aversion to almost all foods and each day it is a struggle to find something that doesn’t sound terrible or make me sick.

Something else I struggle with are smells. It seems that almost all kinds of smells bother me, some more than others. A couple of days ago your daddy decided to grill some chicken. I haven’t been cooking at all since I started feeling sick because the smells make me feel so terrible. So Daddy decided to cook his own dinner outside. But when he brought that chicken inside, the smell was so strong that it sent me straight to the bathroom and I threw up. That has been the only time I’ve been that sick and hopefully it will be the last. But I would gladly endure it every day for you, sweet baby.

I sure love you! I can’t wait until I can start to feel you move and kick. I can’t wait to find out if you’re a girl or a boy! I can’t wait to name you and hold you and care for you! One thing is for sure, you will always know how special you are. I will make sure of that!